NPO Accounting Software Project
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[Software Freedom Conservancy](https://sfconservancy.org/) is leading an
[effort to create accounting software for non-profit organizations](https://sfconservancy.org/campaign/).
Conservancy welcomes the help of anyone who is interested in this issue to
design and develop this software. If you want to get involved right now,
look below for [[information about how to get involved with this project|#howtohelp]].
look below for [[information about how to get involved with this project|index#howtohelp]].
BTW, we're [[hoping to participate in GSoC 2014|GSoC2014Ideas]]. We think
there are enough ideas for probably only one, maybe two, students.
## Phase 0
Initially, during Phase 0 of this project,
Conservancy is doing the following things:
- [Writing a tutorial on a Ledger-CLI setup for fiscal sponsor 501(c)3 organizations](https://gitorious.org/ledger/npo-ledger-cli/).
- [[Finding and evaluating existing Free Software accounting systems|ExistingProjects]].
- [[Writing use cases for non-profit accounting|UseCases]].
## Phase 1
Phase 0 is nearly complete, and in Phase 1, we plan to:
- [Create an REST API for basic double-entry accounting, currently using Ledger-CLI as a backend](http://npoacct.sfconservancy.org/accounting-api/)
- Add functionality to that API that already exists in the [documented Ledger-CLI setup for NPO's](https://gitorious.org/ledger/npo-ledger-cli/).
- Create various reports using that API, to flush out improvements that are needed.
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